The three ages of Harry Styles: From young pop fan to global superstar  

Harry Styles was the fresh-faced teenager we first saw on X Factor in 2010. He arrives in Slane as a fully-formed world star. We look at the major stages in his meteoric rise 

Harry Styles: a man of many moods, taking to Slane Castle this weekend

When Harry Styles walks on stage at Slane Castle on Saturday evening, he will join the exclusive club of artists who have headlined the 80,000-capacity venue. Twenty or so acts have topped the bill at the Co Meath amphitheatre – but Styles is arguably just the third fully-fledged pop star to receive that honour. 

He follows Madonna and Robbie Williams and does so at a level of fame that his predecessors might have struggled to match, even at the height of their popularity.